DO NOWUsing complete sentences (unless otherwise specified), complete the vocabulary portion of your Act I

Literary Roadmap. You will be responsible for knowing these words.

Act I: Scenes i, ii, iii Recap Act I serves as the exposition…what do we

know so far?

Discuss Literary Road Map questions

Shakespeare’s Poetry Shakespeare’s plays are a form of poetry

Poetry is any literary work with rhythm

The language in Shakespeare’s plays often takes on one of two forms: blank verse rhymed verse

Class Notes 21

Two Forms of Verse Blank verse is unrhymed poetry meaning

there is no rhyme at the ends of lines. Rhymed verse is speech that is written in a

rhyming pattern. When Shakespeare rhymes, he usually creates

couplets.

Couplets Couplets are two consecutive lines of

poetry that rhyme

Example: “She is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair,

To merit bliss by making me despair. She hath forsworn to love, and in that

vowDo I live dead that live to tell it now.”

Now You Try! Work in pairs to identify 3 examples of

couplets in any of the scenes we’re read so far.

Write the couplets and page numbers they appear on down in your notes.

Act I: Scene ivRoles: Romeo Mercutio Benvolio

Act I: Scene vRoles First Servingman Second Servingman Third Servingman Capulet Lady Capulet Juliet Tybalt Nurse Romeo Benvolio

Act I Literary Road MapUsing complete sentences, answer the

remaining Reading Comprehension questions

Your completed Literary Road Map packet is due tomorrow!!